Friday, June 19, 2009

It’s raining frogs, tadpoles, fish, and birds


The idiom we always hear proves to have no basis in reality. No cats and dogs have ever been reported to have rained down from the skies. It’s other animals that actually have: tadpoles, frogs, toads, birds, bats, and birds.

We’ve heard about news of animals raining before but so far, no clear explanation has been offered. It’s like the mysterious of case of beached whales and crop circles, or the Bermuda triangle. To stop all theorizing, someone should videotape the process, from how an entire pond of tadpoles is sucked up into warm air, travels a great distance, and ends up splatting on our roofs.

1 comments:

Jego said...

The reason it doesnt rain cats and dogs is because they dont congregate in large numbers like tadpoles and fish do. The frog-rain can be explained by tornadoes happening someplace else then dumping the poor critters several miles away -- even hundreds of miles away. Im sure the odd cat or dog has fallen out of the sky at one time or another due to a tornado. ;-)